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As of this writing I have 8 drafts in WordPress. Some of them are more than a year old. Aaron Jorbin has a post called Leap Day is Delete Your Drafts Day! Jeremy Felt replied with a post saying that he would be participating. He wrote something I identify with: Some drafts are fun markers in time and are hard to delete, yet still somehow impossible to publish. Even just …

As you may have heard a brand new bus route is set to hit the streets of south east London tomorrow as SL3 begins between Thamesmead and Bromley. The route will bring the New Routemaster bus (which isn’t very new anymore) to areas such as Thamesmead, Abbey Wood and Bexleyheath for the first time in routine service. And when it does, the limited stop nature of the route will greatly …

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Davy Jones, The Bell Records Story (7a) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7a Records reissues and expands the late Davy Jones' second solo LP, 1971's Davy Jones as part […]

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by Elisa Giudici L'EMPIRE © Tessalit Productions If I think about the typical film competing at Berlin, I imagine something quite dramatic, decidedly political, and sometimes rather heavy. This edition of the Berlinale has added the adjective "bizarre" to this profile of mine. Here are four films seen in these hours that deserve this adjective. L’EMPIRE by Bruno DumontLet me preface this one: Dumont and I just don't see eye …

Linearity is a blessing and a curse; if the fragrance smells good, it's the former, and if not, the latter. But what happens when a linear fragrance smells neither good nor bad, but just "so-so?" At what point do we decide that linearity is a driver of something other than one's subjective level of enjoyment? At what point is it automatically something undesirable? Replica By the Fireplace

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. Management talks to us like we’re children I am a healthcare professional who works for a home health agency. We are all nurses, rehab therapists, or social workers — educated people with specialized skillsets. We rarely meet in-person but have daily phone calls, so I hear from …

We know that everyone loves the film look. The joke about Reddit posts is that they have to have really nice bokeh in order for them to do well -- at least that's part of it. But if you don't want to shoot film right now, consider the alternative: LUMIX. With the Real Time LUT feature, you can get the film-look by applying luts to your photos. And combine that …

My laptop problems are slowly being sorted out. I mentioned in a sitrep on Sunday that I had managed to reinstall the operating system. This completely trashed the original system and all the files, folders, programmes, preferences, bookmarks, etc., etc., that I'd built up over the year I have been using it.The good news: I managed to copy all of my files and folders back onto the laptop,

Dina Amin is a stop motion animator but apparently also the most creative person ever. I binged on her work for far too long. Via Instagram

Mia Sato, reporting for The Verge: Engadget, which is operated by Yahoo, will lay off 10 employees, according to people with knowledge of the situation who say staff were “blindsided” by the decision. In addition to cutting staff, the editorial team will split into two sections: “news and features” and “reviews and buying advice.” The news teams will focus on traffic growth, while the reviews teams will report to commerce …

AWESOME! Photos from: here, here, and here The post #260 People who look like their pets appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.

Just two weeks on from Les Elephants greatest ever triumph, the Ivorian women’s national team is at its lowest point. The Ebimpe municipal pitches where Athletico Abidjan trains. Credit Alasdair Howorth © 2024. This weekend begins the third round of qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympics in women’s football, but Côte d’Ivoire will not be one of the eight teams vying for a spot. The reason for that is they …

Logo Rhythm by Jamie Ellul. Haven’t backed a Kickstarter in years. This might get me out of retirement.

Who knew that Edward Gorey designed the sets for the U.S. revival of the 1924 stage play Dracula ? I certainly did not, but this fascinating article on the terrific CrimeReads blog does a deep dive into the story. Andy Weir’s The Martian was released in bookstores ten years ago. To celebrate, he wrote a new “lost” chapter of the book. Like many readers, I know of M.R. James for …